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I'm always interested what other people are feeding their youngins. Baby Z is 6 months next week and we just "officially" started solids this week (we got a Baby Bullet for Christmas and I freaking love it!!)

So far she's crazy about bananas but not so sure about yams. I mixed yams and bananas and she liked that a little better. I'm excited for apples and avocado.

Bonus question: Do you feed baby oatmeal? I wanted to make oatmeal instead of rice cereal, by grinding the oats and boiling it with water, possibly adding pureed fruit. Thoughts?

We're not doing "real" solids yet, only five months, but we've started bringing him to the table with us at dinner time and letting him play. The gerber puffs are crazy super dissolvable and so far blueberry is great, not so much sweet potato. I'll pick one up and he'll grab my hand and pull em forward to his mouth, best he can do. The baby mum mum rice crackers are awesome! They're big enough to grab an again, they almost fall apart as soon as he slobbers on em.

He hasn't really got the pincer grip down that everyone's talkin about. Feeding him the puffs is fun but I definitely want to encourage him to do it himself. The puffs also dissolve real quick and are hardly a choking hazard, I'll wait a bit before adding that to my list of things to stress about! I think a few more weeks of this though and we'll be exploring right there with ya. =)

Mine is just about the same age as yours (8/5) and she is so obsessed with watching us eat! We haven't given her any solids yet but I just bought one of those mesh feeder things and might give her some banana in it today. I haven't seen the Ferber puffs but they sound awesome!

Two things:
1. My kid is also SO obsessed with eating; he sits at the table with us and imitates us chewing and it's pretty much the most adorable thing ever.
2. The idea of "Ferber Puffs" just made me laugh out loud. Are those puffs that the baby has to eat and if he doesn't you just let him cry until he manages to get them down?

We do oatmeal, but he doesn't like it unless I add some fruit. My boy looooves bananas and apples, and is pretty ok with pears. Also, making baby food is so much fun, I add breast milk to all of my purees and some of them turn out pretty tasty.

Lily is almost 4 months and she has been watching us eat intently for at least a week or two. We let her try a little bit of sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes on Xmas day. She didn't like the sweet but loved the mashed. I honestly can't wait to start her on food since she seems to have such an interest in it already.

My baby is 18 months old tomorrow and she didn't give a damn about food until her first birthday, when her grandmother gave her a strawberry! It's still her favourite food, closely followed by red grapes (doesn't like green) and bananas. She likes most fruit actually!

She HATES cereal, I think it's the bits. She has a mouthful of weetbix or porridge, and seems to enjoy the taste, but then starts pulling crumbs out of her mouth and making 'ick' faces! She did eat more of the weetbix when I added banana, I think adding fruit you know they love to other foods helps!

My older daughter used to steal onions and garlic bulbs from the pantry and eat them like apples! Every child is different, but that's really different!

Oh good...miner's not the only one to eat onions like that! LOL. It was one of the first things she really liked actually.

I was making something and she was in her high chair, saw the scallions and flipped out. I cut the root off one and handed it to her and she sucked on it for at least 20 mins (she was about 6-7 months). My husband was curious as to why she had onion breath when he got home.

I've definitely caught her taking bites out of an onion recently. She'll devour a lemon too. No chance of scurvy with this kid!

My girl's favorite foods (at the moment) are peas and prunes. She's pretty gung-ho about most foods, though. Yogurt (plain), bananas, apples/applesauce, chicken, cottage cheese, the list goes on. (We do mostly BLW, but I spoon-feed the runny stuff like yogurt.) The only thing she has rejected lately has been pineapple, which she ate with fervor only a week before that happened. Trying that again soon.

Avocados and bananas come 'pre-made'. Applesauce in an "adult" jar. Plain, full fat yoghurt. Sweet potatoes take ten minute on the stove. Oatmeal is great. I didn't get to experiment much with it when my daughter was a baby since it gave her eczema, but she loves a variety of porridge now and it's great for "variety". I also did pear/berry purees which were a nice treat. Applesauce or even veggies mix well with minced chicken breast too as you get into more advanced stuff (depending on your weaning style!)